Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence.

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted

The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.

Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother